Nice beat and raise. Top line growth. Perfect earnings kickoff. Add the ADBE likely merger with MSFT on top of today's retail sales reports and reduced unemployment claims and there is no room to short the market at this level.

Overseas demand.."“We see markets strengthening and have increased our 2010 global aluminum consumption forecast to 13 percent from 12 percent. In countries such as China, Brazil, India, and Russia, more and more people are moving into the middle class, driving demand in building and construction, transportation, and packaging."

MarketWatch reports 6 cents per share which is line with the analysts' expectations from this morning: 6 cents per share. All other sources I saw also report 6 cents. Where did you get 9 cents? I am all for good news but they have to be real, not fake.

Would have been 9 cents....I guess SA read the wrong thing."The New York-based company, seen as a bellwether for global manufacturing, reported earnings of $61 million, or 6 cents, down from $77 million or 8 cents a share a year earlier. Excluding one-time items, earnings would have come in at 9 cents a share."

I would be worried that any big block trades are sellers. I've been sitting here watching AH and any size over 5K (most not all) and each and every 10K+ block is a seller and they are selling well under market @ ~12.25 to 12.35.